Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:18 PM, dhruva<dhruva at ymail.com> wrote:
>>> Some of you core developers can post to the Boost developers mailing list if they would take ZeroMQ as
>> part of Boost.
>> So, I've posted the proposal to the Boost developers list and had some feedback.
>> Dhruva: people seem confused as to what 0MQ is (too high level, too
> low level...) so it might be useful if as a user of both Boost and
> 0MQ, you say something about this.
>> Regarding licensing, it seems quite clear. We need to relicense the
> core of 0MQ, the part that would be packaged with Boost, under BSL.
>> It seems that we'd need to use Boost.Asio in 0MQ, but this may be hard to do.
There are 2 issues to take into account:
1. Is Boost.Asio just a thin wrapper over OS networking API or does it
do any additional processing (like thread synchronisation)? In the
latter case it would hurt 0MQ's performance.
2. Does Boost.Asio work well on exitic platforms, say OpenVMS?
Martin